“This happened during the middle of the day in an open cathedral where there were people in the cathedral at the point of the theft. They were kept in locked showcases with an alarm and they still managed to get away. Of course, it’s absolutely devastating. These are our national heritage items of great significance.
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How Should Critics Write About Actors’ Bodies? Or Should They Do It At All?
Natasha Tripney: “It’s part of a critic’s remit after all to look at what’s before them actively and analytically. But if this discussion is to take place, it needs to be with the awareness that while an actor’s body is their art, their tool, it is also not something they slip off at the end of a performance like a dress.”
The Infantalization Of Our Culture
Some cultural practices today routinely infantilize large swaths of the population. We see it in our everyday speech, when we refer to grown women as “girls”; in how we treat senior citizens, when we place them in adult care centers where they’re forced to surrender their autonomy and privacy; and in the way school personnel and parents treat teenagers, refusing to acknowledge their intelligence and need for autonomy, restricting their freedom, and limiting their ability to enter the workforce.
William Hobbs, 79, Pathbreaking Fight Choreographer
His great innovation was to move beyond elegant, swashbuckling swordplay to show real bodies showing the sweat and blood of combat and real, fallible people making missteps.
Why We Need New Classes On Critical Thinking
We need courses devoted to such matters because we are living in a time where the dangers to informed and rational thought are not so much bad or sloppy thought but a poisoning of the flow of reliable information. It is not the transition from premises to conclusion that is often at fault but the premises themselves. Philosophers who teach Critical Thinking courses need to adjust their syllabi to take this into account.
What Do Younger Gay Men Make Of ‘The Boys In The Band’? The Times Sent A Couple Of Them To See It
“I truly didn’t know Boys in the Band from The Boys From Brazil.” Zachary Woolfe (33, classical music editor/opera critic), Matthew Schneier (34, reporter/critic for Styles), and Wesley Morris (42, critic-at-large) talk about the play and movie (which only Morris had ever seen or read before) with Stuart Emmrich (63, editor, seen it all).
The Reasoning Behind The Cranach-Norton Simon Court Decision? Respecting National Sovereignty
The crux of the case, brought by the heir of the art dealer who owned the Adam and Eve paintings before World War II, was whether the Dutch government had the right to sell the works on when it recovered them post-1945. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided, basically, that it would not second-guess the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
A New Wave Of Dance Films Made On, And For, Smartphones
“It’s a testament to the sophistication of mobile devices that the strengths and weaknesses of the films have little to do with technical issues. Several of the movies look amateurish or are just plain bad, but none because of image quality or outdated effects. The flaws are artistic.” Brian Seibert reports from the first Mobile Dance Film Festival.
First-Ever Museum Of Comedy Opens In Lucille Ball’s Hometown
“Spanning nearly 40,000 square feet, … the [National Comedy Center] took seven years and around $50m to bring to fruition. … It features over 50 interactive exhibits divvied up by style of humor as well as artifacts and ephemera that, in sum, tell the story of comedy from Charlie Chaplin to Dave Chappelle and beyond.”
BookTubers: The YouTube Figures Who Get Thousands Of Followers For Videos About Books
Christine Riccio, the most popular of the bunch: “I was reading a lot of books, and I had no one to discuss them with. I was like, ‘I’ll be lucky if I ever get 500 subscribers over here.'” She now has more than 400,000. Reporter Concepción de León meets Riccio and several of her fellows at VidCon (yes, it’s sort of like ComicCon, but for videomakers).